arts and culture
‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’: Still dreaming of Genie
August 25, 2022The beautiful-looking Longing is for fans of fantasy productions, such as HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.
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‘Breaking’ review: Powerfully intense film exposes systemic hardships for U.S. veterans
August 24, 2022Cannon fodder: Gripping film puts on full display the systemic hardships veterans face once they’ve been discarded after fighting U.S. imperialism’s wars.
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‘Lavender Men’: A theatrical fantasia on the (likely) gayness of Abraham Lincoln
August 10, 2022Has America already had its first (and second) gay president?
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‘Maelstrom Over the Killing Fields’: Dire underdevelopment and the Filipino national idea
August 9, 2022It explores another primary focus of San Juan’s work: the literary struggle to develop a national popular Filipino consciousness under the duress of U.S. neocolonialism.
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Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Another America’: Poems in an updated bilingual edition
August 4, 2022“I came to the Southwest expecting cactus, wide open spaces, and adventure. I found, instead, another whole America."
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